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Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books


Challenge Rules
*Please post a partial list of the challenge when you sign up.
*For each book that you read please post a link to the book, the author and the date you finished it.
*Each book may only be used for one task or letter.
*To count a book towards a challenge you must read the majority of it after the start date of the challenge.
* Where more than one option is given for a task, please state which option your book relates to.
*If the task relates to the cover of your book, please post the cover AND the book link.
*All genres and formats are fine.
*Re-reads are allowed.
*No page minimum.
*Please update your original post as you go.

*When you have finished, please re-post your whole challenge as a new message and MARK AS FINISHED or you will not be considered to have completed the challenge and we will not be able to award your Hall of Fame badge

(Even if you don't hit the level you were aiming for by the deadline, please re-post your challenge anyway as you may still be eligible for a lower level badge.)

Please use the TLC STANDARD RULES when participating in this challenge.
If you are not familiar with these rules, please click on the link and read them over.

Anne FINISHED
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Caraina FINISHED
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Elle

Ferenc FINISHED
Frankie FINISHED

Genevieve FINISHED
Gretel

JoAnne FINISHED
Julesy FINISHED

Katrina FINISHED
Kendra FINISHED

Lali & Michelle FINISHED

Melissa A FINISHED

Olivermagnus FINISHED

Shash FINISHED
Suzanne FINISHED

Vanessa FINISHED

June Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Single: Read 3-4 books
Read: 3

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!


1. 15 Summers Later RaeAnne Thayne 6/23/24
2. Summers at the Saint Mary Kay Andrews 6/26/24
3. For the Love of Summer Susan Mallery 6/29/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Single: Read 3-4 books

1) The Confession - John Grisham 08/06/24
2) The Exorcist's House - Nick Roberts 19/06/24
3) Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer 28/06/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

6 of 6 Complete

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Othello - William Shakespeare - 6/2/24
2. Perestroika in Paris - Jane Smiley - 6/5/24
3. A Place of Greater Safety - Hilary Mantel - 6/7/24
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera - 6/8/24
5. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje - 6/10/24
6. Our Woman in Moscow - Beatriz Williams - 6/17/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Single: Read 3-4 books


4/3-4 Completed. Finished

1.We Lie Here-Rachel Howzell Hall 6/14/24
2.Perfect Together-Kristen Ashley 6/17/24
3.Bring Me Back-Kristen Granata 6/18/24
4.The Worst Kept Secret-Q.B. Tyler 6/24/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food: Step-by-Step Vegetable Gardening for Everyone by Joseph Tychonievich - June 1
2. Unhappy Camper by Lily LaMotte - June 5
3. Ruined by Sarah Vaughn - June 6
4. Scurry by Mac Smith - June 14
5. California Dreamin': Cass Elliot Before The Mamas & the Papas by Pénélope Bagieu - June 14
6. Forever Home by Jenna Ayoub - June 15

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024


1. Down The Aisle With Bridezilla by Carli Palmer 6/2/2024
2. Old Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Lost Little House Years by Cynthia Rylant 6/27/2024

June Stand Alone
Duration: June 1st, 2024 - June 30th, 2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

4/6

1. Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult - June 16th
2. I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks by Gina Sheridan - June 22nd
3. The Auschwitz Photographer: The powerful true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner number 3444 by Luca Crippa & Maurizio Onnis - June 25th
4. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha - June 29th

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

6/6

1. Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd 6/7/24

2. Hanging Woman Creek by Louis L'Amour 6/13/24

3. Squished: A Graphic Novel by Megan Wagner Lloyd 6/13/24

4. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles 6/15/24

5. Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie 6/18/24

6. The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center 6/19/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Goal: 6/6
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

• The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born - Ayi Kwei Armah - 06/06/24
• The Reappearance of Rachel Price - Holly Jackson - 06/09/24
• The Bullet Swallower - Elizabeth Gonzalez James - 06/19/24
• Memory Piece - Lisa Ko - 06/23/24
• Thirteen Months of Sunrise - Rania Mamoun - 06/26/24
• The Invisible Hotel - Yeji Y. Ham - 06/29/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

COMPLETED!

Single: Read 3-4 books


1.) Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica 6/16/2024
2.) The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr 6/21/2024
3.) The Nail Salon by Natalie Tambini 6/25/2024

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks by Gina Sheridan - 6/3
2. The Arabian Nights by Anonymous - 6/4
3. A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers & Spirituals by Tony Kail - 6/5
4. Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale - 6/8
5. Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived by Andrew Wilson - 6/25
6. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston - 6/27

FINISHED! Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024 (06/04/24)

Solitary: Read 5-6 books
6/5+


1. The Paradise Problem Christina Lauren 06/01/24

2. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives Dashka Slater 06/02/24

3. The Unmaking of June Farrow Adrienne Young 06/03/24

4. Out of the Easy Ruta Sepetys 06/03/24

5. The Frozen River Ariel Lawhon 06/03/24

6. Frenchman's Creek Daphne du Maurier 06/04/24

Everyone is linked! :)

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge - FINISHED
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Completed: 6/6

1. Lilli de Jong - Janet Benton 6/1/24
2. The Five-Star Weekend - Elin Hilderbrand 6/3/24
3. Sing, Wild Bird, Sing - Jacqueline O'Mahony 6/6/24
4. The Girls with No Names - Serena Burdick 6/9/24
5. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved - Kate Bowler 6/16/24
6. Hello, Summer - Mary Kay Andrews 6/20/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

01. I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend, Jessica Cage - 6/3
02. Role Playing, Cathy Yardley - 6/6
03. In a Not So Perfect World, Neely Tubati Alexander - 6/10
04. Hearts in the Hard Ground, G. V. Anderson - 6/18
05. Dysfunctional, Isabel Lucero - 6/20
06. Partners in Crime, Alisha Rai - 6/23

Welcome Caraina and Ariel!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
June 2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. A Heart Worth Stealing by Joanna Barker (6/13/24)

Welcome Shash!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
June 1-30, 2024

Single: Read 3-4 books

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Welcome Elle!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish/Paula Brackston 6/2/ 2.5☆

2. The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia/Juliet Grames 6/3/ 2.5☆

3. Blue Hawk/Chloe Turner 6/5/ 4.25☆

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6.

Welcome Gretel!

FINISHED! Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024 (06/04/24)

Solitary: Read 5-6 books
6/5+


1. The Paradise Problem Christina Lauren 06/01/24

2. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives Dashka Slater 06/02/24

3. The Unmaking of June Farrow Adrienne Young 06/03/24

4. Out of the Easy Ruta Sepetys 06/03/24

5. The Frozen River Ariel Lawhon 06/03/24

6. Frenchman's Creek Daphne du Maurier 06/04/24

WOOHOO Mel!

How did you like The Unmaking of June Farrow? I loved it.

FINISHED!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food: Step-by-Step Vegetable Gardening for Everyone by Joseph Tychonievich - June 1
2. Unhappy Camper by Lily LaMotte - June 5
3. Ruined by Sarah Vaughn - June 6
4. Scurry by Mac Smith - June 14
5. California Dreamin': Cass Elliot Before The Mamas & the Papas by Pénélope Bagieu - June 14
6. Forever Home by Jenna Ayoub - June 15

WOOHOO Julesy!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

READ 5/6

1. She Started It by Sian Gilbert 6/1/24
2. Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke 6/2/24
3. Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey 6/3/24
4. Linghun by Ai Jiang 6/9/24
5. McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh 6/14/24
6. A Familiar Stranger by A.R. Torre 6/21/24

FINISHED

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

6/6

1. Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd 6/7/24

2. Hanging Woman Creek by Louis L'Amour 6/13/24

3. Squished: A Graphic Novel by Megan Wagner Lloyd 6/13/24

4. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles 6/15/24

5. Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie 6/18/24

6. The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center 6/19/24

Welcome Vanessa!


WOOHOO Michelle!

~~~ Complete ~~~

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

6 of 6 Complete

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Othello - William Shakespeare - 6/2/24
2. Perestroika in Paris - Jane Smiley - 6/5/24
3. A Place of Greater Safety - Hilary Mantel - 6/7/24
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera - 6/8/24
5. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje - 6/10/24
6. Our Woman in Moscow - Beatriz Williams - 6/17/24

WOOHOO Lynda!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

FINISHED!

READ 6/6

1. She Started It by Sian Gilbert 6/1/24
2. Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke 6/2/24
3. Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey 6/3/24
4. Linghun by Ai Jiang 6/9/24
5. McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh 6/14/24
6. A Familiar Stranger by A.R. Torre 6/21/24

WOOHOO Vanessa!

FINISHED!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

01. I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend, Jessica Cage - 6/3
02. Role Playing, Cathy Yardley - 6/6
03. In a Not So Perfect World, Neely Tubati Alexander - 6/10
04. Hearts in the Hard Ground, G. V. Anderson - 6/18
05. Dysfunctional, Isabel Lucero - 6/20
06. Partners in Crime, Alisha Rai - 6/23

The Lost Challenges
June 2024 Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Progress: 5 out of 5

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Codex by Lev Grossman - *** - 6/5/2024 - 348 Pages
2. Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans by Sammy Lisel - **** - 6/8/2024 - 144 Pages
3. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton - **** - 6/16/2024 - 505 Pages
4. Bossypants by Tina Fey - ***** - 6/23/2024 - 277 Pages
5. Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson - ***** - 6/30/2024 - 483 Pages



Challenge Rules
(view spoiler)[*Please post a partial list of the challenge when you sign up.
*For each book that you read please post a link to the book, the author and the date you finished it.
*Each book may only be used for one task or letter.
*To count a book towards a challenge you must read the majority of it after the start date of the challenge.
* Where more than one option is given for a task, please state which option your book relates to.
*If the task relates to the cover of your book, please post the cover AND the book link.
*All genres and formats are fine.
*Re-reads are allowed.
*No page minimum.
*Please update your original post as you go.

*When you have finished, please re-post your whole challenge as a new message and MARK AS FINISHED or you will not be considered to have completed the challenge and we will not be able to award your Hall of Fame badge

(Even if you don't hit the level you were aiming for by the deadline, please re-post your challenge anyway as you may still be eligible for a lower level badge.)

Please use the TLC STANDARD RULES when participating in this challenge.
If you are not familiar with these rules, please click on the link and read them over. (hide spoiler)]

WOOHOO Ariel!

Welcome Suzanne!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

COMPLETED!

Single: Read 3-4 books


1.) Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica 6/16/2024
2.) The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr 6/21/2024
3.) The Nail Salon by Natalie Tambini 6/25/2024

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Single: Read 3-4 books


4/3-4 Completed. Finished

1.We Lie Here-Rachel Howzell Hall 6/14/24
2.Perfect Together-Kristen Ashley 6/17/24
3.Bring Me Back-Kristen Granata 6/18/24
4.The Worst Kept Secret-Q.B. Tyler 6/24/24

WOOHOO Anne and Frankie!

FINISHED
June Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Single: Read 3-4 books
Read: 3

1. 15 Summers Later RaeAnne Thayne 6/23/24
2. Summers at the Saint Mary Kay Andrews 6/26/24
3. For the Love of Summer Susan Mallery 6/29/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge - Finished
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Single: Read 3-4 books

1) The Confession - John Grisham 08/06/24
2) The Exorcist's House - Nick Roberts 19/06/24
3) Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer 28/06/24

Completed!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Goal: 6/6
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

• The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born - Ayi Kwei Armah - 06/06/24
• The Reappearance of Rachel Price - Holly Jackson - 06/09/24
• The Bullet Swallower - Elizabeth Gonzalez James - 06/19/24
• Memory Piece - Lisa Ko - 06/23/24
• Thirteen Months of Sunrise - Rania Mamoun - 06/26/24
• The Invisible Hotel - Yeji Y. Ham - 06/29/24

WOOHOO Katrina and Ferenc!

FINISHED

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024


1. Down The Aisle With Bridezilla by Carli Palmer 6/2/2024
2. Old Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Lost Little House Years by Cynthia Rylant 6/27/2024

WOOHOO Genevieve!

I read mostly series books this month, so I didn't make top level. Oh well.

June Stand Alone
Duration: June 1st, 2024 - June 30th, 2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

4/6

1. Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult - June 16th
2. I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks by Gina Sheridan - June 22nd
3. The Auschwitz Photographer: The powerful true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner number 3444 by Luca Crippa & Maurizio Onnis - June 25th
4. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha - June 29th

WOOHOO Kendra!

Some months I feel good if I manage one stand alone! I had picked out 2 books and then when I got them, I realized they were series.

FINISHED

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks by Gina Sheridan - 6/3
2. The Arabian Nights by Anonymous - 6/4
3. A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers & Spirituals by Tony Kail - 6/5
4. Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale - 6/8
5. Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived by Andrew Wilson - 6/25
6. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston - 6/27